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Decent work

ILO Head and Danish Prime Minister discuss EU employment and workers’ rights

Danish Prime Minister announces additional funds for the ILO’s work on improving workers’ rights in developing countries during a meeting with the ILO Director-General.

Workers’ rights in the Asia Pacific Region

Helen Kelly: "In many countries, being a trade union activist is risky"

Unions in Asia and the Pacific must use the ILO’s supervisory mechanisms to demand respect of freedom of association and collective bargaining in their countries. This is the opinion of Helen Kelly who chairs the New Zealand Council of Trade Union...

South-South Cooperation

ILO-ACTRAV sign agreement with All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU)

Dialogue Social

Egypt: Bipartite agreement signed between unions and employers in Port Said

Labour Standards

Somalia ratifies three fundamental ILO Conventions

Somalia ratifies the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

Why the European Social Model is still relevant

"In some countries, key elements of the ESM have been radically transformed, and sometimes dismantled, even though they clearly were not the cause of the crisis or the budgetary deficits," says ILO Senior labour economist Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead.

320th Session of the Governing Body

Workers’ Group pays tribute to trade unionist Marc Blondel

New reports outline policy framework for higher growth and more and better jobs

Two major reports that lay out the challenges and opportunities for sustainable business development in Cambodia were launched on Wednesday 12 March 2014 in Phnom Penh.

New reports to outline ways to improve investment climate in Cambodia

Two reports that lay out the challenges and opportunities for sustainable business development in Cambodia will be launched on Wednesday 12 March 2014 in Phnom Penh.

Promote social justice and decent work through social dialogue

The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) said it will further strengthen the cooperation with ILO under the framework of south-south cooperation.

ILO and Belgium reiterated commitment to promoting decent work

At a consultation in Brussels, the ILO and the Belgian government and social partners underlined the pivotal role of decent work for sustainable development.

Labour Standards

Tunisia ratifies three international labour Conventions, including the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention,...

Kazakh parliament starts working on ratification of two ILO wage conventions

On January 29, the Majilis, lower house of Kazakhstan’s parliament, started working on ratification of two ILO conventions – the Minimum Wage-Fixing Machinery Convention, 1928 (No. 26) and the Protection of Wages Convention, 1949 (No. 95).

Interview

Challenges and opportunities for trade unions in 2014

Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), discusses achievements of the global trade union movement in 2013 and new challenges coming up this year. She stresses the role of the ILO in the fight for...

Viet Nam garment industry

Better talk leads to better work

As Viet Nam prepares for a major expansion of international trade a new system for worker-employer relations in garment factories is helping to pave the way for improved working conditions and competitiveness.

National Workshop on Dispute Settlement and Social Dialogue Strategy for the Public Sector

By Mr Donglin Li, Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Income inequality

Collective bargaining essential to overcome global income inequalities

An international workers’ meeting ended in Geneva on 13 December with a call for strengthening workers’ rights to reduce growing inequalities.

Social dialogue

Better talk leads to better work

As Viet Nam prepares for a major expansion of international trade – with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Free Trade Agreement negotiations – a new system for worker-employer relations in garment factories is helping to pave the way to improved...

High-level conference

The role of economic and social councils in the global job crisis

ILO/AICESIS International Conference on “The role and impact of the Economic and Social Councils, and Similar Institutions (ESC-SIs) in the response to the global financial, economic and job crisis”.

319th Governing Body of the ILO

Interview with Luc Cortebeeck, Chair of the Workers’ Group of the ILO Governing Body

The 319th session of the ILO Governing Body recently drew to a close in Geneva. Tackled at this session were several issues concerning the economic crisis in Europe, workers’ rights and international migration. In this interview the Chair of the...